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It's too hot... I have some books to read from Netgalley - probably too many now, but with the heat it is very difficult to concentrate on them. If I complain about cold, wet weather this winter, please remind me of this - at least in winter I can function to some extent, and it's been too hot for poor Max to go out for his usual walks too.
So, my partner still wants to move. Looked tonight - the properties that he'd be interested in are either age restricted - which means I can't live there, or we'd have to get rid of Max, or they are in some scruffy area of my town that's far, far away from the places where I can take Max for walks. Yeah, I hate it here, but without a £100,000 (at least!) where we can buy a home out right, it's not going to happen.
bright-eyes 3 years ago

A pie in the sky idea if ever there was one.

I've got access to some books before they are published at NetGalley. Was surprised, to get approved since one request was declined and I thought they all would be, so hopefully I'll have some happy reading!
bright-eyes 3 years ago

It's also made my day a bit better because this year has been difficult money wise because of the vet bill from last year. It's almost paid off, but it's meant I've had to miss out on things that I didn't want to, so at least I get to do some reading. Wish I found it last year because I could have had some new books to read with all the pandemic chaos.

Been looking all over for the TV remote, including moving the sofa - couldn't find it... Found it in the cutlery drawer... wtf?
The anthology which has Kevin Hearne's The Chapel Perilous, is worth getting, because there are some good authors in it - R. A. Salvatore, Naomi Novik, Terry Brooks, Carrie Vaughn, Tad Williams... The other's I've not heard of, or not read before, so hopefully they will be good, too. It's refreshing to find an anthology with Urban Fantasy in it that isn't full of romance authors.
Just as an aside - I've probably bought the same 'house' in lotro four or five times now. Froggart has finally got his Hobbit-hole of Doom back!
Today, I've been making some stone cladding for the fireplace using air dry clay. It's the first time I've used it and it seems to be going well, but there is more shrinkage than I thought. I'll probably need to make more stones to fill in the gaps. I know that I need to paint the fireplace so that any gaps will look like mortar. It's quite fun, really.
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Been making miniature books today. When I do cross stitch and other types of sewing, I save my small off cuts to make miniatures with. Books are quite simple and you don't need to make them complicated by having writing on the pages, etc... You just need the appearance of a book. Also use card stock off cuts as well.
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ocean-waves 3 years ago

Wait you can make mini books with aida scraps?? That's awesome!!

bright-eyes 3 years ago

Yep. You just glue them around some wood or thick card cut to the size you want and trim them when it's dry. Evenweave works better, though because it's finer. I've also used felt cut-offs before. You can use any fabric you want, though most people who make them use leather instead. Some people use old magazines or catalogues so it looks like you have pages in them - you just use the spine, but they have to be thin

bright-eyes 3 years ago

enough to cut through. Some companies make little hardbacks of classic books and print some of the text from them, but they can be expensive. Most of mine are just wood with a cover on them and glued into a bookcase. I've done that with the 24th scale ones because they fall out and are quite fiddly.

This weeks project has been my 24th scale Tudor dolls house which I had for my birthday a number of years ago (2017?). It was the year when Jaffa had his lump removed and the year before he died. Didn't realise how long it's been sitting around for me to put it together. I do have some miniatures for it, but not that many. It's a struggle to find them.
Why is it, when you ask for recommendations, people don't read the post properly?
I get tired of people 'borrowing', 'inventing' or deliberately 'finding/looking' for problems just for something to complain about. There is enough shit in life that brings you down without doing that.
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Very little point in going to the doctors because all they say now is starve yourself until you're anorexic.
I'll do a guide to the novellas and short stories when I find the time. I think I've got them all, though there is one that's not available on its own in the UK. That no doubt means I'll have to pay more than I want for just one story. The anthology problem in Urban Fantasy is annoying. (The problem being you pay money for one story because there is one story that you want in an anthology and the rest are by authors
bright-eyes 3 years ago

you don't take to. You don't know how many other short stories and novellas there are, so you miss things/buy things twice, etc. The worst is when you need a novella or short story to know what is going on in one of the main books and it's not published in it.

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To make things confusing, there /is/ a proper Iron Druid anthology, but the synopsis does not give the title of the stories inside, so how are you supposed to know that it hasn't been published as an e-book so you can skip purchasing it? (the e-book, I mean...)
As I've not paid much attention to new authors for the past decade, when I find new ones that look interesting, I feel like I've been hibernating all that time.
So, I got given a shelf that looks like it's been made out of wood from a skip... Not sure if I'll use it. I'll see what it's like once I paint it, but I wish my partner was a bit more discerning when 'recycling' stuff...
There are more important things than football...
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Started reading the first of the Iron Druid Chronicles today. Read better, but not as bad as some Urban Fantasy I've read. I think that the main character is able to defeat enemies too easily.
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